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MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 WiFi Support Begins Landing In Upstream Coreboot

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 01:30
The past few months we have been closely covering the Coreboot port to an MSI retail motherboard for Intel Alder Lake. This port carried out by the 3mdeb consulting firm has been with their downstream "Dasharo" firmware based on Coreboot while as of yesterday the motherboard port has begun landing in upstream Coreboot...

Ubuntu Achieves A ~50% Reduction In Start Time For Firefox Snap

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 00:32
Canonical engineers have been continuing their quest to improve the start-up time for the Snap version of Mozilla Firefox that is used by default on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. With the latest improvements now pushed to the Firefox Snap, they are seeing around a 50% reduction in start-time for the web browser...

Windows 11 vs. Linux Performance For Intel Core i9 12900K In Mid-2022

Phoronix - Fri, 07/08/2022 - 18:29
Last year when the Intel Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" processor launched, Windows 11 was outperforming Linux to much surprise in general but explainable due to some late Linux kernel patches around Intel's hybrid architecture. Back in February I looked at the situation again and Linux started outrunning Windows 11 on the i9-12900K with the latest Linux kernel at the time. But with a few more months having passed and for the Intel Alder Lake hybrid processors to mature under Windows and Linux, how do things stand now? Here are some new benchmarks.

Intel SGX2 Support Poised To Land In Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Fri, 07/08/2022 - 17:34
With the upcoming feature-packed Linux 5.20 kernel adding to the growing list of features is Intel SGX2 support looking like it is set to land...

New Lenovo AMD Laptops With Pluton Co-Processor Reportedly Only Boot Windows By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 07/08/2022 - 17:25
At least some of Lenovo's new AMD Rembrandt powered laptops with Microsoft Pluton security co-processor are set by default to only trust Microsoft's key and not the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA Key that Linux distributions and others use for UEFI Secure Boot support. Thus by default only Microsoft Windows will boot with the default firmware configuration on some new Lenovo laptops...

Wayland-Protocols 1.26 Released With New Single-Pixel-Buffer

Phoronix - Fri, 07/08/2022 - 17:21
Wayland-Protocols 1.26 was released on Thursday as the collection of protocol specifications for Wayland. With Wayland-Protocols 1.26 is the new Single Pixel Buffer protocol and enhancements to existing protocols...

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